GIS as a tool for landscape ecologists

GIS is a useful spatial analysis tool for understanding landscape patterns and variability through space and time using the following capabilities and functions.

Capabilities - The 5 M's!

Mapping Monitoring Manipulation Measurement Modelling

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Functions

• Data capture (cartographic elements)
  
  
• Data capture (attributes)
  
  
• Data manipulation
  
  
• Data analysis
  
  
• Display of data and analytical results